On Sat, 09 Mar 2002 23:20:54 GMT, "Bleer" <me@herenow.com> wrote:

>"sniffer" <nospam@any.com> wrote in message news:3c8a51fb@212.67.96.135...
>>
>> "fbloogyuds" <floydr@accessone.com> wrote in message
>> news:3c8a1ae6$1_1@news.nwlink.com...
>> > "Tudor Barglazan" <TudorBar@excite.com> wrote

>> > > My name is Tudor and I found that a lot of triking records were set
>> > > with one pilot onboard a twoseater or single seater trike.
>> > > How about setting a new altitude record for a twoseater trike wit two
>> > > aboard.

>> > Only illegally, since lots of PGs, HGs, PPGs, & trikes have been to
>> > 18,000 feet, which is the top of the airspace we're allowed to fly
>> > in under FAR 103.

>> I have not been to 18,000 feet, is there any oxigen to breath up there?

>no oxigen but a little oxygen

As a nordic, who have been used to metric standards for a century now,
are those feet _air-feet_, aka 1/3 of a metre? 6000 m, that is.

Well, I have read in a Cross Contry mag about PGers starting from top
of Mt Everest, isn't that more than 8000 m. Well, they used canned
oxygen now and then. The real problem isn't that the combination of
cold and little oxygen? One curiosity said by someone knowing, was
that even if you fainted, you would probably awake at lower altetude,
and could then resume your flight ...... :-\

Anyhow, doesn't those olympic winter-skiers train alot at 4000 m, and
train hard. For me, even that altitude seem high, for one that hasn't
even been much above 3000 m in air. (Not easy in these windy, somewhat
cold Norwegian summers, presumely due to climate change, even for a
stiffy, in more that one way at that height, HGer)
--
Regards/mvh
Kåre Olai Lindbach

I think it was Einstein who said:
"There is simple and fast solution for any problem.
Unfortunately it is always wrong."

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